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Crawley New Town is an excellent example of a smaller settlement with good cross-town connections. It was always planned this way: the Master Plan of 1949 proposed that all bus services should operate in this fashion via a central bus station (see the Victoria County History of Sussex (link...

These were a special type of machine manufactured by Almex (same company that were responsible for Permit to Travel machines). Tickets to a very limited range of stations were selectable by turning a dial, then inserting the correct money. The ticket was then printed on PERTIS-style stock with...

A couple of photos have already been linked in an earlier post; but if it's of interest, I've attached here two more photos I took on 29th March this year, mainly for the benefit of people unfamiliar with the area and layout. Obviously I was specifically photographing the train, but the signal...

Yep, none of the stations you have listed have TVMs (although Cookham, Furze Platt and Bourne End - but bizarrely *not* Marlow - had Ascom Autelca "Quickfare" machines which were installed by Network SouthEast and which survived until the early 2000s). Also, none ever had PERTIS, even back in...

Some photos taken on 29th Dec last year (hopefully these upload correctly!)... Taken from the Dyke Road Drive overbridge. The one where the sky appears white looks north towards the Cliftonville Curve.

@starmill: interesting range of "results" - thanks for posting these. Did you have an Advance ticket? - I recently saw one for the first time (for the first couple of months they were printed in the standard layout, if I remember rightly). I haven't heard any reports of trials from other types...

If you can get to the National Archives at Kew, you may find some material in the vast selection of British Rail records (or "Records created or inherited by the British Transport Commission, the British Railways Board, and related bodies", to give it its full title!). This is labelled as...

As a born and bred "Hassocksite" (?!) who is also familiar with all the surrounding stations, I'd be inclined to recommend Hassocks even on a weekday. I think the charge is around £5 on a weekday, you should be able to get a space (particularly on the northbound side, where most of the spaces...

Whereabouts in the country was it? Was the main "body" of the ticket a similar whitish-green to the standard security background of normal ticket stock, or was it distinctly darker and/or more solid?

Thanks for all comments so far - lots of interesting points. Please do keep them coming! Regarding South Croydon, it was in the "CROYDON BR" group in NFM 29 (Jan 1985) but had been taken out by NFM 36 (Jun 1987). I'm particularly anxious to get sight of NFMs 30-35, as you can imagine: South...

Hi all, When I joined the forum, one of my main aims was to tap into the wide range of expertise members may have on (sometimes) obscure ticket-related and fare-related subjects. So, here we go with a few questions on the first one... :D I am interested in, and have spent some time...

Not too bizarre, I suppose, but as well as the various railway poster reprints I have around my flat (in particular the well-known "FAME. BRIGHTON. FASHION." one in the hall opposite the door), I have a mint-condition Network SouthEast map mounted in a borderless frame in my office. It's one...

Would it be from here, by any chance? http://www.stannsulyn.dsl.pipex.com/machines/intro.htm Let's say, I know those lists very well... :lol:

No worries :) I have collected modern railway tickets for the past 25 years, and since New Generation (post-APTIS) systems came out I have maintained various lists of all known machine installations, machine numbers etc., based on observation of tickets collected by me or other "colleagues" (so...

OK, here are all the Southern stations without TVMs: I have grouped them into three parts. Seaford branch; East Coastway; Uckfield branch. Southease, Newhaven Harbour, Bishopstone; Pevensey Bay, Normans Bay, Ore, Three Oaks, Doleham, Winchelsea, Appledore; Ashurst (Kent).

Yes, that's a good call. Southern has had several bursts of TVM-installing over the years, and I fully expected Ore to get one when the likes of Rye, Ham Street, Ockley and Ford were done (i.e. the smallest stations were filled in), which was early 2012. There are very few Southern stations...

Arriva Trains Wales undertook a programme to equip many stations, especially in the Cardiff Valleys area, with TVMs from mid-2013. A quick look at my lists shows more than 60 have been installed, in two tranches: circa May 2013 to September 2013, and from March 2014 to date. They're card-only...

I remember seeing one or two somewhere in the various lists and stuff I keep ... I'll see what I can find in the general clutter of my hard drive! London Midland springs to mind, in particular. EDIT: well, according to the "London Midland ticket office opening hours from 31st March 2013"...

One was installed in mid-2013.

As well as London Kings Cross and the East Coast ticket office at Stevenage (NLC 6068), some or (more likely) all windows at York do so. In all cases this has happened since approx. February this year. Also, since October 2013*, the barcodes have been used on tickets issued from all four of...